Finally got round to watching it and it was pretty good.

It was a nice idea, but the ending sucked. Why does there need to be a cure? Vampirism is not an ilness and should never be cured.

This finally seems to be a turnaround from all those soft squishy oh-am-I-nice-vampires seen in recent movies.
I hope I can get a copy of it soon, it seems as if it’s taking a look at a problem that appeared to me and a bunch of friends when we thought about the ugly “what if vampires take over?” problem…

I found Daybreakers to bit entertaining, but quite braindead. It gave me something to think about, but the movie didn’t do enough with it, imho. That’s the dealbreaker for me. That and the ridiculous ending scene.

It’s only 92 minutes long. If they wanted, they could’ve easily made it a 2,5 tot 3hr movie.

So I’m all game for a remake with a slower, more detailed pace.

But, then again, they didn’t explain why and how vampirism worked – no one ever does.

I don’t know, I seem to remember I Am Legend went into it a little bit. The book, not the recent movie by the same title, which, incidentally, copped out with a “cure” resolution as well.

I’ll have to look into this movie, thanks, I wouldn’t have heard of it otherwise.

Yeah, I loved the movie too. Except the ending didn’t really work for me. It kinda feels sort of an anti-climax. Really, in a world almost to the brim of vampires, have no one thought to actually do that or hasn’t that accidentally happen before? :P

But I do agree with you that overall, it’s one of the few good vampire movies out there.

Luke:

It seems to me that you have always given good advice on some damn good movies. I’m going to go grab this movie as soon as the opportunity presents itself.

In the cultural wasteland that is the movie industry, you have this amazing talent of pointing me towards movies that are not only worth seeing, but also worth owning.

Hmmm. Interesting.
My younger brother kept asking me about this whole twilight thing. I gifted him a copy of the original Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. I kept brooding over what movies to recommend that do a good job of exploring the whole immortality and mental friction concept (he wouldn’t watch Nosferatu, and Underworld isn’t good enough for me). Maybe I’ll take him to a showing of “Daybreakers”.

Utter agreement. The concepts put forward in this movie involving vampire characteristics were either nostalgic or correct, and any other ideas in the movie were things I’d never considered. I guess that doesn’t say too much for me. Regardless, the novelty of it all more than propelled me through the story. Much better than the likes of 30 Days of Night.
I was very happy to see Sam Neill in this film. After seeing him in the third Omen movie and being disappointed, this was an amazing comeback. (In Omen III, he has to play the anti-christ. When the antichrist is a baby, just having it be quiet is creepy enough to work. But here, Mr. Neill had to play him as a grown-up with a job and everything. It was nearly impossible to pull of his character as actually being the anti-christ.) In this film, he plays a big, bad CEO that also happens to be a vampire: two arch-evil traits in one character! And he pulled it off with charisma to spare, IMHO. Well done Mr. Neill, it’s been too long.